Dendrobium aphyllum

Hooded orchid
	Illustration by Sarah Drake from Edwards's Botanical Register
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Genus:	Dendrobium
Species:	D. aphyllum
Binomial name
	Dendrobium aphyllum; (Roxb.) C.E.C.Fisch.
Synonyms
	List of synonyms Limodorum aphyllum Roxb. (1795) ; Cymbidium aphyllum (Roxb.) Sw. (1799) ; Epidendrum aphyllum (Roxb.) Poir. (1810) ; Dendrobium cucullatum R.Br. (1821) ; Dendrobium pierardii R.Br. (1821) ; Pierardia bicolor Raf. (1821) nom. superfl. ; Dendrobium pierardii var. latifolium F.Buyss. (1890) ; Dendrobium pierardii var. cucullatum (R.Br.) Hook.f. (1890) ; Dendrobium oxyphyllum Gagnep. (1950) ; Dendrobium madrasense A.D.Hawkes (1963) nom. illeg. ; Dendrobium aphyllum var. cucullatum (R.Br.) P.K.Sarkar (1984) ; Dendrobium aphyllum var. katakianum I.Barua (2001) ;

Dendrobium aphyllum, commonly known as the hooded orchid^[3] or 兜唇石斛 (dou chun shi hu) is a species of orchid native to Bangladesh, southern China, the eastern Himalayas, and Indochina.^[4]^[5]

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